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send their love and kind greetings
for all. They are anxious to know
when I can take them home
but I can give them no very definite
idea. The building of
a Rail Road over the Sierra
Nevada Mountains with as
much rapidity as possible is
an enterprise that is very
exacting in its requirements of
time. For the present and until
the Orad is complete I
expect to be where business
seems most to require my
presence.

I know not when
it will be permitted that I
shall see you again but my
dear mother always believe
it my strong wish and always
believe that my love for you
is as strong and stronger than
in my young days when I could
not so well appreciate your worth